Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
BLACK ELKAs you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.
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The Holy Land is everywhere.
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They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear’s uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
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Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World.
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Everything tries to be round.
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The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other.
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Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
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If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
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The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
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